Remember when JBL was a main event wrestler? We do. And it’s one of the things we discuss in this episode. When he was first given the promotion I wasn’t a fan of the decision. I was used to him as a tag wrestler in the APA and didn’t feel he looked or wrestled like someone who belonged at the top. It didn’t help that he beat Eddie Guerrero for the championship.
By the end of his title reign I’d warmed to him. He still
feels like an anomaly on the list of WWE champions but he did produce some
enjoyable brawls in the role. What really won me over was his character. The
glad-handing phoney inspired by politicians and JR Ewing was gauged just right.
Had they not gone far enough, or gone too far, it would have flopped or become
incredibly irritating. It ended up a highlight of the often dodgy mid-decade’s
WWE output.
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| The big question is whether Tozawa would keep the mouth guard in NXT |
The main portion of the episode is given over to a
Breaking In segment. Need to be reminded of what that is? We talk about the
chances of three wrestlers from another company making it through the WWE
system. This episode’s outsiders come from Dragon Gate USA: AR Fox, Akira
Tozawa and Chuck Taylor. Want to know if we think they could make it in WWE as
well as our general feeling on them? Then you’d better hit that play button,
bro!
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